Interviewing author and editor of Ebony Magazine Ben Burns.

Terkel comments and reads with Reginald Gibbons

Interviewing editor and Chicago Tribune jazz critic Jack Fuller.

The Chicago Reporter documents the city's struggles with issues of race and poverty, and the UUA is a liberal religious organization.

Ira B. Harkey discusses the south, civil rights, race relations, racism, his newspaper, and his career. Includes Ira Harkey reading his writing from his newspaper the Mississippi "Chronicle-Star."

Reading prose from Spain and Poland by editor of Northwestern Literary Magazine "Tri-Quarterly" with editor Reginald Gibbons.

Soviet intellectuals Tamara Mamedova, Nicolai Pogodin, and Anatol Safronov talk with Studs Terkel about their work with the Institute for Soviet-American Relations (U.S.) and Soviet arts and culture.